By joshua 
By Charles Ebube – Abuja
The ongoing victimization and intimidation against staff of the ECOWAS Court of Justice especially those of Nigeria extraction calls for a thorough investigation or possibly the Nigeria should act now as it is an aberration under the international laws that provides rights to work and guarantee dignity in work place.
It is imperative to stress that human rights violations and abuses constitute crimes.
Many human rights violations and abuses may themselves constitute or amount to crime if certain thresholds or conditions are not met. It will interest the reading public to know that the threshold is not met in this circumstances because under IHRL, states have an extensive set of legal obligations and duties to respect, promote and fulfill human rights. When an act is defined as a human rights violation, it has deprived one or more persons of their fundamental rights and directly contravenes the obligations and duties as set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and numerous other international human rights treaties.
Violations of civil and political rights – including the rights to life and liberty, to freedom of movement and of expression, as well as severe restrictions on economic, social and cultural rights – including the rights to work, to achieve an adequate standard of living to education, to take part in cultural activities may create an environment conducive for the commission of crimes.
However, the situations the regional Court finds itself with the present leadership of Honourable Justice Edward Amoako has breached every known standards under the international laws that guarantee rights to work without any victimization and intimidation which has become the order of the day in the supposed legal institution that is set up to strengthen the mutual relationship between the member states in West Africa.
If the institution is allegedly no longer respecting its legal framework because of the determination of the leadership in a deliberate efforts to get their passive enemies out of the system at all cost and bring in their relations and cronies, then the act is deliberate, and an abuse of office to promote corruptions and also to strangulate the victims economically, politically and culturally which can affect his standard of living and that of his family hence rendering him useless in the society.
It was also alleged that those representing Nigeria at the regional court are out to achieve personal vendetta against the victim considering the amount of pressure put in place to prevent the truth to be told.
If the current situations continue in such an institution against Nigerian citizens, Nigerians may call for mass actions to address the lawlessness on the parts of the leadership and Nigeria government should take it as a point of duties to go into the lingering crisis in an efforts to resolve it amicably.
ECOWAS Court of Justice should be seen as an institution that promote high level of decorum and efficiency to keep dedicated staff that have shown commitments to duty overtime instead of a situation where it is seen that their rules and regulations is selecting those that it will have effects on without recourse to the lay down rules that is sanctioned by the council which is the highest decision making organ of the organization.